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I have Band of Brothers on Blu Ray, and this will be an excellent opportunity to watch it.

This is essentially my primary reason to get a PS3.

That was my primary reason to get a PS3. I've played a few games on it, too, but ultimately it's good BluRay and DVD player that is quite straightforward to update and which I can play the odd game on.

While we are recognizing the brave American, Canandian and British soldiers who landed at Normandy or dropped in the night before, I'd also like to remember the men who sacrificed themselves in Tunisia, Anzio, Salerno, Monte Cassino, the Phillipines, the British 1st Airborne in Arnhem, the 84 members of the 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion massacred at Malmedy, the over 500,000 Soviet soldiers and civilians killed or missing at Stalingrad and the 16 million other Allied soldiers who gave their lives.

Especially close in my memory are the U.S. Marines who landed at Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Iwo Jima and Peleliu.

Much of my family on my father's side was killed during the Second World War because they were members of the Polish resistance. From a family of fourteen, only my grandmother and great grandmother survived the war - my grandfather and step-grandfather both escaped Poland and enlisted in the Royal Army. My grandfather worked as an artilleryman, and my step-grandfather as a mechanic. Both were in Africa for much of the conflict there, and on my mother's side my grandfather was one of the few who made it back from the massacre at Dieppe. So there's a lot of military history in my family, and I think that recognizing the sacrifices made is something everyone should do.

my favorite part of generation kill is where their convoy of humvees is speeding through a town, shooting everything that moves and that guy on the grenade launcher just completely levels an entire building.

My girlfriend's grandfather was there on Iwo Jima when they planted the flag. He was partners with a Cherokee code-talker.

Apparently after the war he was very, very nervous around anything that sounded like gunfire if he didn't know about it ahead of time (i.e. fireworks on the 4th.) One day some local kids (who knew he was a veteran) decided to play a prank and throw some firecrackers down near his feet. After crawling out from under the car he'd taken cover under, he caught up to them, pulled them out of the truck and gave them a beating. The following day the police came by to look into the matter, wanting him to press charges against the boys who'd done it. He refused, and said 'I lost too many boys in the war, I'm not going to ruin the lives of two more.'

My girlfriend's grandfather was there on Iwo Jima when they planted the flag. He was partners with a Cherokee code-talker.

Apparently after the war he was very, very nervous around anything that sounded like gunfire if he didn't know about it ahead of time (i.e. fireworks on the 4th.) One day some local kids (who knew he was a veteran) decided to play a prank and throw some firecrackers down near his feet. After crawling out from under the car he'd taken cover under, he caught up to them, pulled them out of the truck and gave them a beating. The following day the police came by to look into the matter, wanting him to press charges against the boys who'd done it. He refused, and said 'I lost too many boys in the war, I'm not going to ruin the lives of two more.'

While we are recognizing the brave American, Canandian and British soldiers who landed at Normandy or dropped in the night before, I'd also like to remember the men who sacrificed themselves in Tunisia, Anzio, Salerno, Monte Cassino, the Phillipines, the British 1st Airborne in Arnhem, the 84 members of the 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion massacred at Malmedy, the over 500,000 Soviet soldiers and civilians killed or missing at Stalingrad and the 16 million other Allied soldiers who gave their lives.

Especially close in my memory are the U.S. Marines who landed at Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Iwo Jima and Peleliu.

Oh lord so many Canadian regiments were completely obliterated, nearly to the last man, by the 1st SS Panzer.

Pick up and read Steel Inferno by Micheal Reynolds. It's a book about the 1st SS Panzer Corps, their entire history, leading up to their formation to the end of the unit. The book is very very detailed and has highly respectable sources for its information.

Weaver on June 2009

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Everyone should watch The World at War. It's a fantastic documentary narrated by Sir Laurence Olivier about WW2 with tons of combats footage and interviews with generals, soldiers, politicians, etc. It's god damn awesome.

That was the movie that I saw during my only off-base pass during my 12 weeks of infantry training at Ft. Benning, Georgia. My great grandfather was in a truck in France that was hit by German mortars and died before the Berlin wall fell with German shrapnel still trying to work its way out of his skin to the day he died choking on his own blood because the shrapnel finally caused his lungs to basically explode.

Weaver on June 2009

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